Sunday, August 14, 2011

Obama's Approval Rating Hits a Record Low 39%

President Obama has been flirting with low poll numbers since, well since shortly after he was inaugurated in 2009. Sunday, he hit an all-time low with his approval rating sinking into the thirties. This just before he kicks off a bus tour of his very own through Iowa, at the taxpayers expense.

The L.A. Times reports:
President Obama's summer woes have dragged his approval rating to an all-time low, sinking below 40% for the first time in Gallup's daily tracking poll.

New data posted Sunday shows that 39% of Americans approve of Obama's job performance, while 54% disapprove. Both are the worst numbers of his presidency.

Obama's approval rating has hovered in the 40% range for much of 2011, peaking at 53% in the weeks following the death of Osama bin Laden.

But Americans' view of his job performance continued to tick downward as the debt-ceiling debate heated up. By the time he signed legislation averting a federal default, he was mired in the low-40% range...

Obama is set to launch something of a counter-offensive on Monday with a three-day bus tour of the Midwest, a trip that includes two stops in Iowa. The White House denied that the itinerary was politically motivated, however.

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